Fans score a phone goal

Now you can catch up with those highlights in mini-screen

by GARY JACOB

Monday March 03 2003, 12.00am, The Times

by GARY JACOB

Monday March 03 2003, 12.00am, The Times

IT’S BEEN ANYTHING BUT EASY FOR frustrated football fans. Recent technological advances have made it possible for them to keep up to date with their team’s fortunes by way of text message, but it’s difficult to replicate the singular emotion of watching your team score with “beep beep”.

At last enforced absentees are being given a chance to be part of the action. From today, it will be possible to pre-order a mobile telephone that lets them watch highlights of football matches on-screen. The clips, which are downloaded and stored on the phone so that they can be played at leisure, are accompanied by text and commentary, and the service should be operational in time for matches due to take place on March 22.